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The UN’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil concludes with what organizers are calling the “strongest ever” deal – but critics aren’t convinced. Nearly 200 countries signed a new declaration promising to accelerate climate action and keep warming below 1.5°C. Adaptation funding is set to triple to $120 billion by 2035 to help vulnerable nations.

However, the deal omits any direct mention of oil, gas, or coal, frustrating over 80 countries and the EU that pushed for a clear roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. Deforestation in the Amazon is barely addressed, and climate experts warn that “baby steps” won’t be enough as global temperatures approach 1.3°C. COP30 maintained diplomatic unity, but the world still waits for bold, concrete action.

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00:00I now declare the 30th session of the COP closed.
00:17COP30, the big UN climate summit, just wrapped up in Brazil.
00:22And honestly, the world got a deal,
00:25but a lot of people are walking away saying,
00:28that's it? Seriously?
00:31So, let's break it down in plain English,
00:34what actually happened,
00:36and why so many countries and climate experts
00:39think it's not nearly enough.
00:44First, the good news, kind of.
00:47Almost a hundred countries did agree on an eight-page declaration.
00:53They promised to accelerate action
00:55to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius,
00:58the danger line we set in Paris ten years ago.
01:02They also launched something called the
01:04Belem Mission to 1.5,
01:06a voluntary program to help countries
01:09actually do what they've already promised.
01:12And there's a new push to triple adaptation money,
01:16the cash poor countries need for seawalls,
01:19drought-resistant crops, storm warnings,
01:22up to about $120 billion by 2035.
01:26So, baby steps.
01:28Everyone clapped, no one walked out.
01:31That's something.
01:37But, here's why so many people are disappointed.
01:40Actually, angry.
01:42About 80 countries,
01:44plus the entire European Union,
01:46came to Brazil begging for one simple thing.
01:50A clear, written roadmap to phase out oil, gas, and coal.
01:56The stuff that's causing 75 to 80% of the problem.
02:04Guess what got left out?
02:06Any direct mention of oil, gas, or coal.
02:10Zero. Nada.
02:13The final text talks about transitioning energy systems
02:17in the vaguest way possible.
02:19It's like your doctor saying,
02:21you should probably eat healthier,
02:23instead of cut the burgers and soda right now
02:26or you're heading for a heart attack.
02:28Oil-rich nations in the Middle East,
02:31plus Russia, blocked stronger language again.
02:35Colombia literally objected in the final session
02:38and said,
02:39there is no mitigation if we can't even talk
02:42about getting off fossil fuels.
02:44They had to twist arms just to promise future chats about it.
02:49Even deforestation,
02:52huge issue when you're meeting on the edge of the Amazon,
02:55barely gets a sentence in the preamble.
02:58Look, the Brazilian president of the summit promised
03:03two new science-based roadmaps next year.
03:06One on fossil fuels, one on forests.
03:09People clapped for that too.
03:11But promises for next year don't cut emissions today.
03:16And we're running out of next year's.
03:19We're already at about 1.2, 1.3 degrees of warming.
03:24Every month in 2024-2025 has smashed heat records.
03:29COP30 kept the family together
03:33when geopolitics is tearing everything apart.
03:36And that matters.
03:37But on the actual job,
03:39giving the world a believable plan to ditch fossil fuels fast,
03:44it basically punted.
03:46Climate campaigners are calling it
03:49baby steps when we needed giant leaps.
03:52I think that's fair.
03:54The fight's not over.
03:56Far from it.
03:572026 has more talks,
03:59and countries have to bring stronger national plans by then.
04:03But for now,
04:05the Amazon got a whisper when it needed a roar.
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